Libya: The Struggle for Survival [Paperback]

Geoff Simons (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 15, 1996 | ISBN-10: 031216002X | ISBN-13: 978-0312160029

This book charts in detail the West's response, particularly that of the US, to Libya's possible involvement in the bombing of the Pan Am airliner over Lockerbie in 1988. It suggests that this response cannot be fully understood without the consideration of the role of the US as sole military superpower in the New World Order.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

In this prodigiously researched book, veteran British journalist Simons sets out to produce three distinct works: an investigative essay on Libyan involvement in the Lockerbie explosion, a descriptive sketch of modern Libya, and an analytical survey of Libyan foreign relations, especially those with the United States. He seeks to portray American policies of disinformation, economic sanctions, and the 1986 bombing raid from a perspective sympathetic to Gaddafi. Holding that "the most important factors of modern Libya are oil and Gaddafi," Simon says that the United States has pursued an interventionist foreign policy toward Libya in order to gain access to that oil by ousting Gaddafi. In the Lockerbie matter, Simons argues that the United States sought to blame Libya to the exclusion of other involved Middle Eastern parties in order to isolate Gaddafi even further from the international community. This perspective stands in stark contrast to Brian L. Davis's Qaddafi, Terrorism, and the Origins of the U.S. Attack on Libya (Praeger, 1990) and John Davis's Libyan Politics: Tribe and Revolution (Univ. of California Pr., 1988). While not totally convincing in its general argument, the book is fascinating in its amassed detail and belongs in all large public and academic libraries.
- James Rhodes, Luther Coll., Decorah, Ia.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Review

'Geoff Simons has performed a service to the English-speaking world by writing the first, serious and comprehensive assessment of the late-twentieth-century Libya available in the English language.' - Tam Dalyell, MP 'A work of great authority and importance. Geoff Simons wipes away the web of Western camouflage, hypocrisy and deceit to discover the utterly disreputable truth.' - Harold Pinter --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 450 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (August 15, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 031216002X
• ISBN-13: 978-0312160029
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,249,070 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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